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  2. Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia

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    Bonneville Lock and Dam / ˈbɒnəvɪl / consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. [ 6 ] The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.

  3. Fish ladder - Wikipedia

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    Pool-and-weir fish ladder at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River Drone video of a fish way in Estonia, on the river Jägala FERC Fish Ladder Safety Sign. A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as ...

  4. Shoshone Falls - Wikipedia

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    Average. flow rate. 3,530 cu ft/s (100 m 3 /s) [3] Shoshone Falls (/ ʃoʊˈʃoʊn /) is a waterfall in the western United States, on the Snake River in south-central Idaho, approximately three miles (5 km) northeast of the city of Twin Falls. Sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," Shoshone Falls is 212 feet (65 m) in height, 45 feet (14 m ...

  5. File:Fish Ladder, Bonneville Dam-2.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D3100: Exposure time: 1/125 sec (0.008) F-number: f/5.6: ISO speed rating: 110: Date and time of data generation: 15:58, 20 June 2013: Lens focal length: 18 mm: Horizontal resolution: 240 dpi: Vertical resolution: 240 dpi: Software used: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows) File ...

  6. Lake Bonneville (Oregon) - Wikipedia

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    Lake Bonneville is a reservoir on the Columbia River in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. It was created in 1937 with the construction of Bonneville Dam. The reservoir stretches between it and The Dalles Dam, upstream. It lies in parts of three counties in Oregon (Multnomah, Hood River, Wasco) and two in Washington (Skamania, Klickitat).

  7. Lake Bonneville - Wikipedia

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    Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America. It was a pluvial lake that formed in response to an increase in precipitation and a decrease in evaporation as a result of cooler temperatures. The lake covered much of what is now western Utah and at its highest level extended into present ...

  8. Bonneville, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    1138422 [1] Bonneville is an unincorporated community in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, on Interstate 84 and the Columbia River. Bonneville is best known as the site of Bonneville Dam. North Bonneville, Washington is across the river. For decades before the dam was built, Bonneville was popular as a picnic spot for people living along ...

  9. Bridge of the Gods (land bridge) - Wikipedia

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    The Bonneville landslide sent a large amount of debris south from Table Mountain and Greenleaf Peak, covering more than 5.5 square miles (14 km 2). The debris slid into the Columbia Gorge close to modern-day Cascade Locks, Oregon, blocking the Columbia River with a natural dam approximately 200 feet (61 m) high and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long. The ...